Edna Longley quotes

“I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.”
-- Edna Longley

Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". SRB interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

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“Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.”
-- Edna Longley

Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

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“Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.”
-- Edna Longley

Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". SRB interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

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“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.”

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.”

“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.”

Source : "Boundaries and Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.”